DENNIS, Justice.
Defendants, who were acquitted of capital crimes by reason of insanity, unsuccessfully moved the Orleans Criminal District Court for a transfer to a less restrictive commitment facility. Instead of deciding the merits of defendants' motions, the district court declared unconstitutional the statute it considered applicable to such transfers and terminated the proceedings. Defendants appealed directly here, La. Const. Art. 5 § 5(D)(1), and the...
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